Louise Glück is the
author of numerous books of poetry, including The
Seven Ages (Ecco Press, 2001); Vita
Nova (1999), winner of The New Yorker Magazine’s
Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands
(1996); The
Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize
and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams
Award; Ararat
(1990), for which she received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National
Prize for Poetry; and The Triumph of Achilles (1985),
which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston
Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America's
Melville Kane Award. She has also published a collection
of essays, Proofs
and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), which won
the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. A chapbook, October,
was published by Saraband Books in 2003. Glück’s
tenth book of poetry is Averno
(FSG), which was nominated for the National Book Award in 2006
and was listed by The New York Times Book Review as one
of the 100 Notable Books of the Year. Her new collection of
poems, entitled A
Village Life, will be published in September 2009 (FSG).
Glück’s honors
also include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary
Award for Poetry, Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986),
M.I.T. Anniversary Medal (2000), the L.L. Winship/PEN New England
Award (2007), and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller
foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Glück
received the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award for “outstanding
and proven mastery in the art of poetry.”
Louise Glück taught
at Williams College for 20 years and is currently Rosenkranz
writer-in-residence at Yale University. She lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. She is a member of the American Academy and Institute
of Arts and Letters and has been a Chancellor of The Academy
of American Poets. In 2007, Louise Glück was reappointed
for a 5-year term as the judge for the Yale Series of Younger
Poets. In September 2003, Louise Glück was appointed United
States Poet Laureate (2003-2004).
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”There are few living
poets whose new poems one always feels eager to read. Louise
Glück ranks at the top of the list. Her writing's emotional
and rhetorical intensity are beyond dispute.”
— The Washington Post
“Louise Glück
is a poet of strong and haunting presence.”
— Helen Vendler, The
New Republic
“Louise (Glück)
sometimes uses language so plain it can almost seem like someone
is speaking to you spontaneously – but it’s always
intensely distinguished.”
